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My capital has 3 militia city defenders and 1 archer defender when I have yet to research any of the military techs including archery. Dosen't make a whole lotta sense!
Really?? But I can't design units with those can I? If I can't design archer militia units to put in my armies, then how can I have city defenders like that? Hmmm, not a big deal I guess, just seems weird.
The idea goes with the point that these crude shortbows are things people have in their attics and there are not enough to supply an army, but they pull them out to defend their city.
I believe the description says a string tied to a stick at both ends.
Although the explanations before may have a bit of sense... I totally agree with OP. We should be able to produce crappy archers from the beggining, or with the first warfare tech (training, if i rememeber right) instead of having to wait for so long for the archery tech. This is more sense. And again, gives more chances to make early troops.
Slingers, short bowmen, throwing knifes or axes, throwing spears, or any other low level ranged troop would be suitable.
Hey, I like the 'slingers' idea. Makes me think of Clan of the Cave Bear for some reason. Obviously there could be militia men who could throw stuff, etc..
The slingers would require more animation models to get it to look right. So we can probably see this in an expansion pack of some kind. don't think this will happen in next few days. If somebody is willing to do all the model work for it.... which is hard... then we are going to have to deal with the fact that somebody can mod in the use of crude shortbows for basic troops.
There doesn't have to be special animation or anything as long as the explanation is there. They could just change the name to slingers or something.
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